Discover All Things Jazz in June in DC! - June 7-16. It's a Jazz Takeover of the District.

The DC Jazz Festival® invites you to explore the exceptional array of renowned masters and emerging artists from across the jazz spectrum and beyond. Use the filter to find your favorite artist and various performances located throughout the District — including The Wharf and in your own neighborhood through Jazz in the ’Hoods. Catch the water taxi from Georgetown to the Wharf. Check out Anacostia and the Big Chair for East River JazzFest. Head to Buzzard Point to check out the CapitalBop Series. Visit Ivy City's City Winery or Ivy Smokehouse. Check out Downtown and The Hamilton Live or Frankin Park. Or head to U street to Twins Jazz, BIN 301, or Ben's Next Door. There is something for everyone.

DC JazzFest at The Wharf Presented by Events DC (June 14-16)featuring four main stages with events on the District and Transit Piers are FREE, yes free, to the public—includes a diverse marketplace and Education Village with our Meet the Artist series. Events at The Anthem are ticketed.

Jazz In The 'Hoods

Jazz in the ’Hoods presented by Events DC is a major feature of the DC Jazz Festival, an exciting partnership with local clubs, restaurants, hotels, galleries, places of worship, and performing arts spaces in celebration of jazz in our nation’s capital.

Visit DC

The DC Jazz Festival®, a 501(c)(3) non-profit service organization, and its 2019 programs are made possible, in part, with major grants from the Government of the District of Columbia, Muriel Bowser, Mayor; with awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, an agency supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts; the Office of Cable Television, Film, Music & Entertainment; the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development; and, in part, by major grants from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Galena-Yorktown Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, Wells Fargo Foundation, Gillon Family Charitable Fund, the NEA Foundation, Venable Foundation, The Dallas Morse Coors Foundation for the Performing Arts, The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, and the Reva & David Logan Foundation.